Used a couple of US recipes recently and most of the ingredients are in cups, or spoons, not by weight. This is a nightmare to convert. Do Americans not own scales or something? What’s the reason for measuring everything by volume?

    • subtext@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      But what I’m saying is I’m plenty accurate enough with cups… there would be no appreciable difference for my box of brownies.

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        7 months ago

        You’re maybe plenty accurate for the brownies of your preference, but probably not for professional cooking or other activities that require accuracy.

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              7 months ago

              Absolutely the point. Precision is not needed in the vast majority of cooking. It’s a pointless, time-consuming step.

              Volumetric measurement is superior. Yes, I’d rather it be liters instead of cups, but cups is better than grams.

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                7 months ago

                I’m not just talking about home cooking. It’s just one thing. I’m talking about life in general. We Americans have a tendency to do these weird things based purely on tradition when there are more precise and logical solutions available. But no, no: “We’re unique and exceptional. We do it the American way.” Ridiculous.